The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-10
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Prietors Of the Hespeler wooden mills at
hamilton, 0nt., have made an assign
ment Tor the benefit Of their creditors.
Tho liabilities are placed at over 5000.
OOo. with assets nominally the same.
Messrs. Fulton 4 Peters. coal and Grain
dealers at Wilmington, O., have assigned.
Assets. $50. 600; liabilities, $50, 900.
Joseph Smith, . Cincinnati capitalist.
made an assignment. Assets, $3.50, 900,
Liabilities, $500, 900.
Several masked men stopped tho east
bound Salt Lake Express on the Denver &
Rio Grande road lev miles east OF Grand
Junction and compelled the engineer. fire.
man, mail and express messengers to leave
the train. While they were being guarded
by one OF their number the Others passed
through the train relieving the passengers
OF their money and valuables.
Wheat rates to Chicago are advanced to
10 cents per 100 pounds, and transit re-
stricted to certain territory.
According to all reports Mrs. Potter 10
not great success. Since tho opening
night the audiences have been very small.
A circus train was wrecked at st. Louis
and the freed wild animals made it lively
Tor the general public.
Delphos. O weanling, sired by Nutwood.
dam Dolphine, by Harold, sire of Maud s..
was sold at Jerseyville, Ill.,, to the Cation
STOCK farm Tor 3d. $50. This is the highest
price paid Tor q weanling in this country.
The Chicago Times was sold for 81, 200.
OOO-$6OO, 900 for the good will and tho
same amount for tho real estate and per.
sonal property.
valuation is $50, O00, 900 less than it was
In 1874.
Fourth.class portmasters apnointed.
1owa-Sheldahl, p. Bereqren: WilsonviIle
a: +. Howard. Minnesota-Groye Lake
H. Biglow.
| Five fishing tugs went out from Two
Rivers, Wis.,, and brought back the bodies
OF seventeen men and two women who had
| oeen aboard the foundered propeller Yer.
non, making twenty-five bodies recovered.
The engine house at Two Rivers was turn.
ed into a morgue. The first body recoe.
nl1ed was that of Fred Burk, son of the
hali,owner OF the Northern Michigan line.
| 40 the father gazed upon the features OF
his dead son he sobbed aloud. Only seven
OF the bodies were identified. They are:
George Thorpe OF Ogdensburg. N. Y, cap
tain OF the Vernon; John Sullivan, Chica.
90, frst mate; Larry Higgins, Chicago sec.
| ond mate; Martin Lebeau, Chicago, stew.
ard; H: Lebeau, Chicago, porter; Fred
Burk. Chicago, clerk; Roy Hazleton, Chica.
60. cabin boy; E. B. Borland, Milwaukee,
passenger.
Secretary Endicott and Ajdt. Gen. Drum
will probably leave Washington soon on
| tour OF inspection to Fort Leavenworth
and other Western points.
The following summary OF the weather
| Tor the past month is taken from the re-
port oil p. F. Lyons. of tho United States
signal service station, St. Paul. and will
answer generally for tho Northwest: A
! low average temperature and decided def
cheney in precipitation were the most i'm.
portant features in last months weather.
The average temperature at St. Paul for
the last fifteen years was AL deg; that
Tor last month was A. deg. There was
only one October since 1870 that was
cooler than the ono in question, which was
IN 1873. ite average temperature being
4l:6 deg. The corresponding month in
1879 was tho warmest since 1870, it's
mean being 81 deg. The highest tempera.
ture last month was 72.4 deg, and tho
lowest lis deg. the dates being the Sth
and 26th respectively.
Tho secretary ofthe interior has affirmed
tho decision Of tho commissioner OF the
general land Office in the case of the South.
ern Minnesota Railroad vs.. Alex Ross.
The land in controversy were lots in sec.
ton 3. township. 1O9, range As, Tracy
district. The secretary says: The only
material question ut issue IL. ibid the
company waive whatever rights it might
have acquired to the land in question by
ito failure to appear and assert it's claim
at the date when Ross made his final
proof" On the authority OF Brady W.
Southern Pacific Railroad and Iverson Va.
St. Paul, Minneapolis Il Manitoba this
question must be answered in the affirm.
alive.
Tom Barry, OF the executive board Of
the knights OF Labor, says he is in hearty
sympathy with the anarchists, and declares
he is convinced that Pinkerton's .:scabs,"
% he terms them, threw the bomb
at tho haymarket for the purpose Of
bounding innocent men to death. Barry
says that he 10 gradually becoming an an.
archist himself, not of the mild, conserva.
tive brand, but of such as mean business.
Rev. Charles A. Berry of Wolvcrhamp.
ton. England, is to be called to Plymouth
Church az it's pastor. The advisory com.
mittee OF the church having charge OF the
subject unanimously voted to recon.
mend the selection OF Mr.. Berry.
At Madison, Wis.,, Philip L. Spooner,
father OF United States Senator Spooner,
died OF neuralgia of the heart, aged seventy.
seven: He had been slightly ailing Tor two
most thoroughly read and profound law.
yers in the state.
d. L. Hawkins, assistant secretary Of
the interior, having special charge and di.
rsction OF tho board OF pension appeals,
has prepared q report covering the opera.
tions of the board since the increase in it's
membership on July /, 1886, to Nov. I,
1887. The following summary is append.
cd: Appeals pending July 1, 1886, 1896;
appeals filed since, 2, 953; total cases dis.
posed oil, 5, 289; appeals decided by board
wherein tho decision Of tho pension office
was sustained, 3, 729; reversed. 23G; up.
peals wherein action was reconsidered by
pension Office and pensions allowed on
notice that appeal had been taken, l,131;
appeals withdrawn, "a; appeals dismissed,
159; appeals pending Nov. 1, 1887, $50.
Jenny Lind, the celebrated Swedish
singer dies at her home in London.
Joseph Fuller, an old seaman Of New
buryport, Mass, receives back pension
amounting to $13.0s5.
Urgent recommendations are made BY
Gen. Benet, chief OF ordnance, in his annual
report, for steel gune.
The secretary OF the treasury has mott.
fed C. 8. Grayson of Kennedy, Mimi. in
reference to his asking ii logs cut in Min.
nosota can be taken to saw mill in the
province OF Ontario by citizens OF the
United States and there sawn into lumbe,
and the lumber imported into tho United
States without payment OF duty. The
secretary says that such lumber or i'm
portations would bs dutiable.
At Trujilla. Peru, there was serious
meeting Of soldiers. The authorities fol-
lowed the mutineers out three leagues into
the country. whore = fight took place in
which several were killed. The sergeant.
who was the ringleader, was subsequently
caught. The firing in the square was heavy
Fifteen or twenty were kille,l or wounded
The q rye ant has been tried by court mar
tial and shot. His name was Villegas. Il
10 satd that before heing shot no confessed
to having committed fourteen murders.
Fourteen OF the mutineern have boon
caught apd shot.
The Marquis do Mores has arrived 10
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